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Deadline. and christopher wray and the fbi may be ready to answer those now. tonight nbc news reports more than 130 political appointees working in the executive office of the president did not have permanent security clearances as of 2017, including the presidents daughter, son-in-law and his top legal council, according to internal white house documents obtained by nbc news. maria, theres so much to talk about in the developments but the big nbc news reporting tonight, not only jared kushner a...

Absolute total silence from the president of the united states. well have more on the florida school massacre in a moment but first there is breaking news tonight in the latest trump white house chaos. last night on this program i asked when we would next hear from christopher wray about the security clearance process for rob porter, who was forced to leave the white house last week after accusations from his two former wives became public saying he was physically abuse ive and violent with them...

According to internal white house documents obtained by nbc news. maria, theres so much to talk about in the developments but the big nbc news reporting tonight, not only jared kushner and ivanka trump but the white house counsel himself has not, at last check, completed his own security clearance process. >> this is problem. americans need to take a step back and say there is a security breach, an emergency such as we witnessed today in florida and the majority of the people advising the presid...

This president of the united states has not spoken a single word. he lazily tweeted two tweets at about 1:00 p.m. today. just spoke to governor rick scott, working closely with law enforcement. and then the prayers and condolences tweet. thats it. not one word. not one human expression to the victims, about the victims, nothing. absolute total silence from the president of the united states. well have more on the florida school massacre in a moment but first there is breaking news tonight in the...

House. to add a few more, theres growing scrutiny on the security clearance process at the white house and how many officials are operating there without a full security clearance. theres a lot of heat on chief of staff john kelly, who has lost the support of many of the senior staffers working under him at the white house. and widespread specificatiulati the pretty will be looking to replace his chief of staff. 0 a lot of questions that went unanswered today. as soon as the shooting happened, t...

Adviser and joe trippe. steve, youre looking at more than a week of this scandal. it seems at this point that john kelly being fired -- resigning is a real possibility. is that something that will help republicans politically or is it really too late to fully clean this up at this point? >> no, i dont think its too late to clean up this mess. i think we need to hear from the president himself. he needs to come out and show real empathy for all victims of domestic abuse but specifically for the v...

Conversation of rob port are last tuesday evening. then trey gowdy is asking for any policies and practices and procedures relating to the investigation and issuance of interim security clearances and whether it was consistent with the policies and also the dates when porter was given these various security clearances. so, there is now an official investigation. we have it on paper. sabrina, the significance? >> what this underscores is a lack of oversight within the white house when it comes to...

Information. >> i think sometimes it is necessary to have some type of preliminary clearance in order to fill a slot, but i have publicly stated if that is the case, the access has to be limited in terms of the kind of information they can be in a position to receive or not receive. so i think thats something that we have to do as a part of our security clearance review. the process is broken. it needs to be reformed. >> joining me now to talk about this, cnn legal and national security analyst,...

Think the really fair questions are what were you told, by whom were you told, did you have some reason to question what the bureau told you, and if none of that is true, why did you keep him on? so don is one person to ask, general kelly is one person to ask. there may be others to ask. those are the questions going through my mind. what did you know, when did you know it, to what extent were you told and did you have any reason in the world to doubt the information that was provided to you, be...

The fact that the fbi had the information. im hearing that personnel security office works with the national security council along with white house personnel. so three groups that have information about those who are working in the white house or potential people who, president or senior staff may want to bring in. now, what im understanding is is that the fbi does its due diligence once the white house says this is who we want. and then it goes into issue where they present their findings and ...